Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The charming town of Winona, Minnesota, once played host to an extraordinary tale in the world of...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Franconia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Sandstone
District 48 School Near Delano
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
Visiting Golden Gate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Milford Monument
Jordan Brewery Complex
Green Lake Mounds
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Old School In Wolverton
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Old Wadena
Red Wing Iron Works
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Brewery In Preston
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Cobden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Little Marais Inn
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Florence Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown